BIO374H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Persistent Organic Pollutant, Volatile Organic Compound, Radioactive Contamination
Document Summary
Top 10 worst polluted sites in world. Here in na dec 2009, most polluted cities in na (diagram) windsor, smog. Federal contaminated sites in gta capitol of canada. Environment canada: fcsi: federal contaminated site inventory. Brief history of environment pollution soot on ceiling from burning fire. A key turning point on creating outdoor air pollution. Started coal use core samples of glaciers from greenland recorded the increase in air pollution. Big factories use large volume of fossil fuels air pollution. London great smog 1952, ~12,000 killed, >100,000 sick. Extreme smog events in los angeles and donora, pennsylvania late. 1940s large volume of industrial chemical discharges (paper industry) Great stink on the themes of 1858 summer to london sewage system (most damaging when low wing, very concentrated pollution coming out) Nuclear power plants (several major accidents from nuclear power plants) started major modern environmental legislations. Types (sources) of pollution: air pollution, release of chemicals and particulates into air, common air pollutants.
